President Moon’s Approval Rating Falls to A New Low
Another week and yet another new low approval rating for President Moon:
President Moon Jae-in’s approval rating dropped to 52.5 percent, the lowest level since taking power in May 2017, affected by a stagnating economy with no signs of an immediate rebound and stalled talks on North Korea’s denuclearization.
In a poll by Realmeter of 1,505 adults nationwide from Monday through Wednesday, Moon’s popularity dropped 1.2 percent points to 52.5 percent in an eighth straight week of declines. The previous lowest point was 53.1 percent polled in the second week of September, right before his third summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang.
Approval hovering just above the 50 percent mark is a stark contrast to earlier this year when they surged to around 80 percent on hopes for a breakthrough with North Korea, which contributed to a sweeping victory in local elections in June. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
You can read more at the link.
4:20, Blaze It!
Well, maybe:
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/18/11/12759474/south-korea-legalizes-medical-marijuana
The Devil being in the details:
More at the link of course.
I know I am in disagreement with several Droppers on this subject. Different life experiences and all that. Colorado hasn’t seen a major rise in crime, but it also hasn’t seen as much money going into the tax revenue stream as was promised. That’s more a question of spending and priorities than lack of folks kicking in their percentage to “The System.”
I chose to put this article here rather than Genera Topics as there is the legitimate question of the timing on this. Moon needs the youth vote to stay in power, and he’s been dropping rapidly in the approval polls. South Korea is still very Conservative on the subject of Ganja, as is most of Asia. Probably a hold over from the Opium Wars.
But considering the relative success the U.S. has had in legalization, the days of “Reefer Madness! Warn Your Children!” may be coming to a close. Also, that North Korea never outlawed it, and that it sells wacky-tobacky openly in the markets would have put North and South in direct conflict on that specific point.
MTB, I watched it kill my hometown in California and a dozen of my friends. Your experience I’m sure has been all Unicorns and Rainbows. We won’t reach a consensus; but that’s that. I’d still buy you a seasonally-appropriate office beverage.
My observation is that pot keeps capable people from living up to their potential… and it keeps incapable people from living up to much of anything.
That being said, I am all for legal weed.
The War on Drugs has clearly failed… introducing additional elements of criminality, violence, expense, government bloat, etc… and doing pretty much nothing to stop the losers from being potheads.
in fact, I would argue that more hometowns have been killed by the War on Drugs jailing non-violent fathers and creating a criminal underclass than by the Demon Weed making people… uh… lazy.
As robots replace low-skill people, they need something to tranquilize the realization that they are pointless humans with too much time and filled with misplaced resentment. Cheap, legal, high-grade pot is a perfect solution to keep them from marching in the streets or engaging in envy based criminality against the productive class.
Meanwhile, all those resources that go into the War on Drugs might be better spent in a War on Open Borders… and just like the government bloat that needed a direction after the end of Prohibition was targeted to reefer, the government bloat that chases down “enemy combatants” in the War on Drugs could easily be retargeted toward the predators and parasites invading America.
P.S. Setnaffa, I am skeptical that pot destroyed your hometown and a dozen friends. Meth? Sure, Smack? OK. Pot? Never seen it. Don’t believe it. Can’t imagine it happening.
“Free weed, man…”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9yP6RrS3Mw
4 were suicides. 2 were killed while stealing someone else’s weed. 3 were killed while being robbed (wrong place, wrong time, homeless because of weed). 2 got caught by a “rogue wave” or “riptide” and died in the ocean. 1 is in prison for life because of his part in a murder over drugs.
That doesn’t count those who died from car or motorcycle accidents while possibly high or maybe drunk, those who died from heart disease or cancer from pot or tobacco. I’ve also lost track of a few more that might have died.
The one “meth-related death: I know about was a guy who used to get high and sit under a bridge. Apparently, he rolled into the water and drowned. He was one of the chess club/computer geek types…
And if you don’t believe marijuana is a gateway drug for weak people, you probably think no one ever starts out on beer and moves on to stronger drink…
Setnaffa, baby! Let’s look closer…
4 were suicides… not sure if drugs are to blame. I would suggest that it is more common for the suicidal to use drugs than happy, well-adjusted drug users to turn suicidal.
2 were killed while stealing someone else’s weed… cheap legal weed would have saved their lives. Protip: don’t steal weed
3 were killed while being robbed (wrong place, wrong time, homeless because of weed)… cheap legal weed would have saved their lives.
2 got caught by a “rogue wave” or “riptide” and died in the ocean… maybe drugs, maybe not. Mandatory swimming lessons costs less than a Blackhawk with FLIR and a SWAT team standing by to bust a 17 year old for a dime bag… though they wouldn’t be able to seize anything through asset forfeiture.
1 is in prison for life because of his part in a murder over drugs… cheap legal weed would have saved the other guy’s life… though he probably had it coming.
“And if you don’t believe marijuana is a gateway drug for weak people…”
Oh… but I DO.
I just see thinning the herd of weak people to be a feature, not a bug. Open that gateway a little wider!
…and let them go down on their own… cheaply and alone… without causing as much trouble for the rest of society.
Setnaffa, you have given examples of dummies, dirtbags, and criminals… for which I have no desire to save by financing and enduring the failed War on Drugs.
I want the druggies to smoke their cheap home-grown reefer in private rather than stealing my car stereo to finance overpriced bunk weed carted over the border by some shifty wetback in a gang of murderous chollos.
But you may have gotten me thinking in another direction. Perhaps the failed War on Drugs is not so failed! It keeps the scumbags killing each other. And it keeps the CIA financed.
So there is that.